Pines Man To Head Pharmacist Group

July 30, 2000|BOB FRENCH

Pembroke Pines pharmacist Steven Pressman was recently inducted as the new president of the Broward County Pharmacist Association.

The ceremony took place during the association's annual installation dinner at the Signature Grand in Davie. State Sen. Howard C. Forman, D-Pembroke Pines, swore in Pressman as president along with other officers and board members of the association.

Pressman owns and operates two Pill Box Pharmacies and Medical Supply stores in Pembroke Pines and on Pill Box store in Weston. He is also active in the Rotary Club.

Dawn Anderson, director of the Aventura Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been appointed to serve on the board of directors of the North Dade/Miami Beach unit of the American Cancer Society.

Her term, which begins in September, will run for two years.

The comprehensive cancer center is a department of Aventura Hospital and Medical Center. Anderson, who has a background in practice management and oncology care, is responsible for the administrative and operative direction of the new center.

The center, one block west of the hospital's main campus, offers multidisciplinary services including radiation oncology, medical oncology and surgical oncology. It also has a breast diagnostic center, cancer research facilities and physician officers

Weston principal

serves on board

Mark R. Truitt, principal of the Sagemont Upper School, a private school in Weston, has been selected to serve on the Board of the Florida Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Truitt will represent Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties in the association, which is committed to improving instruction, supervision and curriculum development for all schools in Florida.

Truitt has more than 25 years' experience as a teacher, coach and administrator in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. He was the founding principal of the Pembroke Pines Charter Middle School and in March joined Sagemont, which plans to open its upper school (ninth-12th grades) in August.